If you find your eye is swollen and red, sensitive to lights, and there is a feeling like something is there inside the eyes, vision is bit blurry, and difficult to open the eyes when you wake up in the morning, then you might be suffering from Belpharitis.

The eye is known to be one of the most sensitive organs in the body. Parts of the eyes are covered with pain receptors, which are designed to protect these vital organs. The number and sensitivity of these pain receptors can cause them to react and send pain signals to the brain from such minor changes as a gust of cold air or a grain of sand.

NT-501, the lead product candidate of Neurotech Pharmaceutisals, inc., have successfully slowed down the loss of vision in a Phase 2 clinical trial, in patients suffering from macular degeneration along with geographic atrophy(GA). GA is a condition that destroys sharp central vision and causes serious vision loss to one or both eyes.

Researchers and physicians from Texas Children’s Cancer Center, the Children’s Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicinea, have came together to to create the Retinoblastoma Centre of Houston to treat children who are suffering from the dreaded eye cancer.

Almost 100,000 people in United States are suffering from blindness due disease like retinitis pigmentosa. It is a hereditary disease that disable the photoreceptor cells- rods and cones, these cells helps to adjust in dim and bright light.